The Minister of Social Policy, Conchita Ruiz, defended this Monday the implementation of the Early Care Law, which, she said, has universalized free care and the detection of disability in children between 0 and 6 years of age in the Region. However, from the PSOE, deputy Toñi Abenza considers that two months after its launch, a solution must be found to the eight-month waiting list to care for minors with Down Syndrome.
Conchita Ruiz defended her “positive balance” of the implementation of the regulations and explained that what is happening is that the law has caused “a knock-on effect” since before its approval there were minors who did not receive care because their parents did not They had money or because they were unaware that aid existed. Furthermore, equal coverage was not guaranteed throughout the Region and the assessment criteria were not unified, and a minor who was eligible to receive a benefit in one municipality was not, under equal conditions, in another. After 30 drafts of the law, the counselor added, it was considered that it had to be implemented and along the way they have realized that it can be improved. But that, the popular one stressed, does not mean that “the law is bad.”
The debate of the Disability Commission of the Assembly began slowly, but experienced a tense moment after Vox, in its first intervention, attacked its government partner even more harshly than the PSOE, which was not exactly soft because it reproached the lack of a Strategic Disability Care Plan; that the Disability Law and the Disability Observatory have not been created, nor has the Social Services Map been completed.
The representative of the Antelo party, María José Ruiz Díaz, paraphrased the well-known phrase of President Fernando López Miras that this is the best Region in the world, to ensure that “unfortunately, living in the Region is not the best option for people with disabilities.” disability”. In addition, she criticized the delay of the Regional Social Services Plan. «They said that they are preparing the economic report. At the rate they are going, the plan will not be in place until the end of the year.
Conchita Ruiz immediately stepped forward, responding with figures: an increase in investment in Early Care from 6 to 23 million euros and the two national Queen Letizia disability awards that the municipalities of Cartagena and Murcia have received for the services they provide. . To this we must add, added the popular deputy Santiago Arsenio López Nogueras, ensuring that other communities are copying the regional Early Care model, which has allowed the Government to “export its social policies.”
It was her last intervention that bothered the socialist Toñi Abenza, who had maintained a conciliatory tone in her interventions until the popular one accused her of using the dead to engage in politics, after she made reference to the 1,452 families that have lost a relative. while they waited on the Unit's waiting list. Abenza replied that in this the PP is much better than the PSOE because it keeps putting the dead of ETA on the table.
López Nogueras also confronted the Vox deputy, after she insisted on the need to create a Regional Social Services Plan “to break the trend of poverty that the PP has created in the Region.” The popular asked her to review her data because the trend is the opposite (fall in poverty) and Ruiz Díaz alluded to her experience as a Social Services worker and put on the table the increase in the percentage of the population at risk of poverty .
Conchita Ruiz, for her part, emphasized that since the implementation of the new Early Care Law, more than 4,600 families have been assisted and 50 Child Development and Early Care Centers (CDIAT) have been enabled. For this, it is planned to allocate an additional 7.5 million. Hence the total investment of 23.5 million annually.
In addition, he explained that the Next Generation Funds are being used to innovate in social policies with an eye toward moving towards the deinstitutionalization of benefits so that people who do not have to go to a day center do not go and, instead , access residential resources where they can live with more autonomy. He also recalled that the deadline to request aid to eliminate barriers in homes, buy prostheses, etc. ends on May 12. An amount of 2.5 million euros has been made available for this purpose.
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